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OBESITY PREVENTION. A COMMUNITY APPROACH. Simple Messages That Influence Complex Behaviors. Increase physical activity Eat more nutritious food and smaller portions Stop smoking. We all have influence in some spheres – or on many spheres. Individual – your family’s decisions

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Use non-sedentary ways to be with your family – Frisbee, walking, play games.

Be physically active on a regular basis. The goal is 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week

Incorporate “active behaviors,” always take the stairs instead of elevator, park further away, take opportunities to move, take short walks in between meeting. It benefits you – but also influences other people.

At one point in time, smoking was allowed in such places as airplanes and no one thought twice about it. Doctors were even portrayed in advertisements to encourage patients to smoke for their health. Not anymore.

Everyday, more cities, states, and countries are creating 100% smoke-free environments. The social norms surrounding smoking are changing.

U.S. EPA labels secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen (the same as asbestos).

When Lexington, KY became 100% smoke-free it was written by the Supreme Court of Kentucky that, “…the protection of public health is uniformly recognized as a most important municipal function. ‘It is not only a right but a manifest duty of a city.’”

Every year, more than 8,000 Kentuckians die from tobacco-related diseases.

Each year, $1.2 billion in Medicaid and Medicare funds is being spent treating Kentuckians for illnesses worsened or caused by tobacco use. In other words, $300 is coming out of the pockets of each of the 4 million people living in KY due to tobacco use.